The Sony Pictures hack and its resulting fallout may have caught many people by surprise, but not the FBI — it apparently suspected for months that something like this might happen. The Intercept has obtained a December 2013 agency report warning that it was just a matter of time before a US company faced a “data-destruction attack” like the one that hit Sony, where malware deletes enough data to render systems unusable.
The FBI was warned of a cyberattack like Sony’s back in 2013
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